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Hello

I am getting a white screen when loading http://localhost

My configuration is as follows:
windows vista sp2 64bit
xampp version 1.7.4
apache - running
mysql - running

I cannot access the configuration menu or anything for that fact.

Thank you

Can you access by typing http://127.0.0.1 in your browser?

Have you tested in any other browser you may have installed on your PC?

Check your firewall is allowing port 80, 443 and 3306.

Drag C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\HOSTS file into your notepad text editor and make sure that the first line after all the commented lines looks like this:

Code: Select all: 127.0.0.1 localhost

If not then add it as the first line after all the # commented lines and then save the file - try again to access localhost in your browser.

In Vista if you have problems saving the file:
Run Notepad as Administrator.
Find the shortcut for Notepad in your Programs list.
Right-click on it and choose "run as Administrator".

Now in Notepad do File>Open to get to the HOSTS file.

Make your changes and you should now be able to save it.

Good luck.

Thank you for the reply

My hosts file is as you requested

When I use Firefox4 I get a white screen. In Internet Explorer 8 I get a 404 error

I have explicitly opened up the ports your mentioned and the apache http server is also allowed

I get the same result if I put in http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1

Any other suggestions are greatly appreciated

thank you

When you open the XAMPP Control Panel does Apache and MySQL show a green running?
XAMPP Control Panel = \xampp\xampp-control.exe

Read the \xampp\apache\logs\error.log file in your notepad and see why you are getting a 404 file not found error.

Thanks for the reply:

Here is the most recent error from my /apache/logs/error

[Thu Apr 14 17:55:45 2011] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Thu Apr 14 17:55:45 2011] [notice] Digest: done
[Thu Apr 14 17:55:46 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8o PHP/5.3.4 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu Apr 14 17:55:46 2011] [notice] Server built: Oct 18 2010 01:58:12
[Thu Apr 14 17:55:46 2011] [notice] Parent: Created child process 5772
[Thu Apr 14 17:55:47 2011] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Thu Apr 14 17:55:47 2011] [notice] Digest: done
[Thu Apr 14 17:55:48 2011] [notice] Child 5772: Child process is running
[Thu Apr 14 17:55:48 2011] [notice] Child 5772: Acquired the start mutex.
[Thu Apr 14 17:55:48 2011] [notice] Child 5772: Starting 150 worker threads.
[Thu Apr 14 17:55:48 2011] [notice] Child 5772: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Thu Apr 14 17:55:48 2011] [notice] Child 5772: Starting thread to listen on port 443.

Here is the screenshot of my control panel.

http://screencast.com/t/Ik7u8eoB

My apache and mysql are both running green.

Thank you

The log file is not showing the 404 error that your IE browser tells you it has received from Apache or at least from localhost - that is very strange.

Try a reboot and see if you get the same result.

I rebooted my system and now everything works fine for now

thanks, its amazing what a reboot will do for a windows system

Just had this problem myself. I found the culprit to be Skype. That may have not been the problem in your case but maybe this will help others.

I opened Skype, and about an hour later started WAMP. I was only getting a blank white page at http://localhost - which was really confusing to me as it was working fine just the other day.

The event viewer located in Control Panel -> Administrative Tools showed me the errors Apache was having. One of which was this:

The Apache service named reported the following error:
>>> (OS 10048)Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted. : make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 .

I then ran "netstat -ab" in cmd, and saw that Skype was on port 80. I closed Skype, restarted WAMP and I was back in action.

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